The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-01-12
NOTES FROM RrNeoEs.

Cherry, Jr., being the purchaser The
price paid was $1,000.
Rumor says that Mrs. Hannah Young
and family, will remove to Philadelphia
in The Spring.
The post Office is now located in the
Odd Fellows Hall.
Large quantities of ice have been stored
in the ice houses in this neighborIiood,
during the past week
Some Of your readers may be interested
10 brief account Of the language treat
which wo enjoyed during our attendance
upon the twenty. ninth annual meeting of
the Teachers Association of New Jersey,
which was held Dec. 28th, Goth and Both
last, in the Model School Hall at Trenton.
And first, we would like 10 say few
words respecting language, its uses and
abuses. Language is the expression of
thought by means of written or spoken
signs. Hence we see that, no matter
how beautiful, how eleyatiug, and how
eunobling are the thoughts which exist
IN any persons mind, IL he has not such a
knowledge of the laws of language aud
of tho practical application of these, as
will enable him to clothe his thoughts in
chaste and fitting language, he can never
give The world the benefit of them. They
must remain forever locked ia his own
mind, or what is infinitely worse, he, in
the attempt to express his ideas-by
his bunglng use of words, conveys to his
hearers very different impression than
he intends, and makes himself the laugh.
ing stock Of the intelligent ones who hear
him.
Some people live who wish merely to
live aud no more. They think "the world
owesthem a living, by which they mean,
plenty of everything TO eat, drink and
wear, warm fire to sit by in winter, and
nothing to do in summer. This to them
is the ideal happy life. To these, the all
stomach and no. brain people, knowledge
of language, farther than that which is
necessary to enable them to tell when
they are hungry, thirsty or cold, is nss-
less, aud time spent in trying TO acquire
such knowledge is indeed wasted.
But TO those who desire to move in
good society, who wish to enjoy the fell
lowship of scholars, TO elevate humanity,
and to accomplish the greatest work pos
sible during life time, knowledge Of
the laws of language, aud the correct use
OF the same, is not only desirable but abb
solutely necessary. Truly cultured socie-
~ guards jealousy its entrances and will
not admit the man who interchanges
vowel sounds, says sur for sir, boad for
board, urunst for earnest, evry for every,
yeas for years, childrun for children,
NH fnp f,,po For fire To-.
girl, hurd for heard, educate for educate,
curcul for circle, befoa for before, onas-
Stunning for unassuming, carrige Tor car
riage, and the like--who continually
somits I, d and when they occur in the
end Of syllable-wbose speech is affect
ed--who interchanges the terms intel
lectual work" and "memory work who
talks Of things, which are mot ieRl' as
apparent, and who does kindred other
things
Though correct utterance, the use ofpro-
per words to express IDEAS, emotions and
The like, the proper arrangement of these
words into sentences, and the ability to
reason we'll and clearly, ara of the utmost
importance TO everyone who has any as
pirations toward scholarship, by the
teacher these qualifications are especially
needed. Every teacher who is engaged
in his profession, has under his charge
pupils, to whom he is 10 impart instruc-
ton, and whom he is to train for the per-
Torrance of the duties of life, and TO this
teacher as model, the children are
taught TO looks Through the medium of
spoken languages must nearly all of this
instruction be impaired to The child, and
in almost all cases we find the teachers
errors of speech reproduced and even in
iensiiled in the pupils. The aim of the
teacher then, should be TO make his speech
as nearly perfect as possible; to train his
pupils In The proper use of language; and
10 improve every opportunity of adding
to his own stock Of linguistic knowledge.
And just here we would say that if any
of the teachers who were in attendance
profit by what they heard there, they
were certainly very neglectful of their
privileges.
Some of the fons in our language are
difficult Of utteranee by the tyro, and to
become proficient in their utterance re-
quires time, patience and ceaseless yigi.
lance. Now several of the speakers at
this meeting, the most of whom hold
prominent positions in school affairs,
either in this State or in neighborng ones,
and as q consequence are likely to be
thought authorities among teachers, have
happily set aside this difficulty. II which
is perhaps The most difficult Of the con-
sonants fons When il occurs in the end of
a syllable. is wholly ignored or else very
indistinctly uttered final and are also
omitted, and vast amount of time and
energy thus saved to the speaker When
difficult vowel fon occurs, this fon is
omitted and sound something like
that made by that most interesting Of
domestic animals the hog, substituted
for it.
BY the use of these veniions, an ad
dress which would ordinarily require two
hours for ITS deliverance, can easily be
disposed of IN one halt the time, and even
less. Consequently twice the amount Of
useful information can be communicated
In given time. Then, too, it keeps the
audience from growing weary, even If the
subject under discussion is not a very in-
leresting one. The listeners are constant
~ diverted with guessing what the speak
er means, and are kept always "in state
of delightful uncertainty To be suro
tbiS MUM W sOtHOWuh WCotiuk uBOu tuO
speakers, and how mach more we should
appreciate their sacrifices in introducing
il since this is so !
These ways adopted In the school room
will be means Of greatly lessening the
teachers work, and will leave him more
sine to devote 10 the study of anthropolo-
ny, a knowledge of which is said TO be
one Of the essentials of successful
teacher /!
Some of these gentlemen have also dis
covered that the sound Of heard In the
word at is much more enphonic sound
than that 10 the word glass, and conse-
quently substitute the former for the lat.
ter as often as Is possible. a
We never realized until last week how
many offices beside that OF smell the nose
might be made to perform. IF an audi.
ence grows weary and iDattentive, quite q
pleasing variation may be made by hav-
ing recitation or reading rendered ia
what might be called for of course Il
must have name) the nasal style. Thii
Is done by forcing all the sounds made, Il
pass through the nose before reaching the
ears of the listeners. The effect is uniqxe
The graceful and euphonic way il